Identity Quote by Brian Aldiss

“...'being published’ is not the same as being a real writer.”

— Scarlett Thomas

My essential identity is that of a writer.

— Athol Fugard

I've always considered myself a writer.

— Patti Smith

As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was…

— Joan Didion

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself,…

— Ralph Ellison

I am a writer (and one day I'll be an author). For a long time I was a bookseller (who wrote) or a TV…

— Michael Scott

If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you are a…

— Trenton Lee Stewart

I've basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not.

— Bob Schieffer

I have always aspired to be a writer, be it as an author or a screenwriter, whatever the medium.

— Kanika Dhillon

I don't really consider myself a writer, but I am writing so I guess I'm a writer.

— Meital Dohan

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want…

— Katherine Paterson

There is an invisible aspect of being a writer; none of it is about you. It's about your work, and that's what it should…

— Abi Morgan